HARMONIOUS THRUSH 299 
sense very few of them are ; but each has its unique 
appeal to the native-born : — - 
" Weed ye trample underfoot 
Floods his heart abrim — 
Bird ye never heeded, 
Oh, she calls his dead to him ! " 
Useless to try to copy it in mere words. 
The Harmonious Thrush is most plentiful in the 
messmate bush between Torquay and Anglesea. I 
have had occasion to speak often of this fascinating 
woodland area ; it extends from Addiscott, near 
Torquay, to the valley of the Anglesea River, and 
from Paraparap on the north to the ocean beach on 
the south, and though firewood-cutters make annually 
increasing inroads into its recesses, it still presents 
the richest field for the study of bird-life lying within 
fairly easy reach of our town. 
Other parts of the district where this Thrush 
may be found are the bush between Drysdale and 
Ocean Grove, the Anakie Forest, the Dog Rocks, 
and, indeed, any well-wooded tract of country. 
The nest is built almost entirely of bark, lined 
sometimes with a few rootlets. The traditional site 
is in the hollow of a charred stump, but I have seen 
it also in a clump of sword-grass, in the centre of an 
acacia hedge, among flood-drift caught in the fork 
of a redgum sapling, and once in a quite exposed 
position about 20 feet from the ground, in the fork 
of a she-oak tree. 
The eggs are usually three in number ; pure white 
